Psalm 90:4

Psalm 90:4 4 For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

Before we start today a brief history lesson. Click here for a brief look at the last 1000 years – I’ll wait for you to get back…

A thousand years is a long time, isn’t it? How many people have lived over the last 1000 years do you think? No one seems to know for sure (how could they?) but the estimates that I could find place the number around 100,000,000,000 - give or take 20 billion or so… That’s a lot of people over a lot of time. We’ve seen amazing advances in technology, knowledge and medicine. You know what it all adds up to? A hill of beans…

Why would I say that? We’ve been to the moon. (snore) We’ve cured diseases. (yawn) The world is safe. (Are you kidding?) After everything we’ve learned and accomplished we have discovered that we are still weak. Hurricanes, typhoons and earthquakes still happen. Planes, trains and automobiles still crash. Dictators rise and fall. Nations are established and then consumed. People still die and are mostly forgotten as soon as a generation later.

Compare that to God. The Psalmist says ”For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past”. A millennium for us has been but a blink of the eye for the Father. There is nothing that affects Him. Time does not darken His eye one bit. He remains the same. “For I am the Lord, I do not change…” He says of Himself.

God has established His plan and it will come to pass no matter the amount of plotting or planning man does. What is it to us that He is taking His time? Two thousand years is nothing to the one who created time – it is no longer than a ”watch in the night” to quote our verse from today.

Man hasn’t really changed much either over the course of history. We still are building our tower to be higher than Him except we use steel and silicone instead of mud and slime. We still long to get to the high place and shake our fist at Him and say “WE DON’T NEED YOU!” We use all of our advances to distance ourselves from Him instead of using them to draw closer.

But it is all for naught. God’s plan is established. Rest in the comfort that He has not forgotten about us and His will is going to be accomplished. Keep at the work that has been assigned to you and listen for the voice of the Master as He says “well done good and faithful servant”.

Blessing to you all…